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Bulk create EpisodeImage not always working

obdue wrote 29 days ago: 1

I noticed this odd thing, apparently when episodes already have images, the bulk tool is not working. It displays the empty page with a "Bulk create" button https://www.tvmaze.com/image/bulk?season_id=4154.
I'm trying to replace subpar images in the first two seasons of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/940/the-dead-zone, but doing this one by one is kinda bothersome. Any chance of fixing the tool's behaviour?

Another minor thing is when episodes don't have images and the tool works, the checkbox "make the main image" is kind of pointless, the single episode image is main by definition. Removing it will make the layout more compact and convenient to use.


RoseRed wrote 29 days ago: 1

@obdue wrote:
I noticed this odd thing, apparently when episodes already have images, the bulk tool is not working. It displays the empty page with a "Bulk create" button https://www.tvmaze.com/image/bulk?season_id=4154.
I'm trying to replace subpar images in the first two seasons of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/940/the-dead-zone, but doing this one by one is kinda bothersome. Any chance of fixing the tool's behaviour?

Another minor thing is when episodes don't have images and the tool works, the checkbox "make the main image" is kind of pointless, the single episode image is main by definition. Removing it will make the layout more compact and convenient to use.

I second that!!



Aidan wrote 29 days ago: 1

Its not perfect, but for now using the Episode List tool at least give you direct links to the images that needs replacing.

obdue wrote 29 days ago: 1

@Aidan wrote:
Its not perfect, but for now using the Episode List tool at least give you direct links to the images that needs replacing.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it is kind of like apples and oranges. Yeah, it gives a nice overview but doesn't help with uploading, you still need to go one by one. Unless I'm missing something of course.
Anyway, I don't reckon this is something very complicated to fix. The tool, obviously, checks if there's an image already present, so it is just a matter of omitting that check, allowing it to work regardless.



Aidan wrote 29 days ago: 1

@obdue wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but it is kind of like apples and oranges. Yeah, it gives a nice overview but doesn't help with uploading, you still need to go one by one. Unless I'm missing something of course.
Anyway, I don't reckon this is something very complicated to fix. The tool, obviously, checks if there's an image already present, so it is just a matter of omitting that check, allowing it to work regardless.

Yeah I'm very much for this feature as well :)

The only caveat is that you could mess up a lot very quickly with it, so if it gets implemented I'd imagine there would be some restrictions to it, possibly only available to SCs or TCs and above.

obdue wrote 29 days ago: 1

@Aidan wrote:
The only caveat is that you could mess up a lot very quickly with it

True. But maybe instead of simply checking for the presence of the image, it could do some sanity check? To see if the image meets some minimum quality requirements or such. With the example above, it is hard to mess up something like that ))

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